Commercial Real Estate: The Next Hole in the Economy
Posted on December 6, 2009
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DC-area developer Jeff Neal gives the Huffington Post Investigative Fund a tour of empty commercial properties just blocks from the Capitol. Hundreds of small and medium-size banks are facing huge numbers of possible defaults by builders who erected thousands of office towers, condominiums and shopping centers with the easy credit available five years ago.
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over 10% vacancy doesn’t come overnight. Think about that.
Fascism is what’s being promoted by the powers-that-be as the cure-all for America’s ills.
@procommenter No “ISM” is likely to save us.
Fascism will save us, somehow.
Well, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act does. But it doesn’t help that no one on the left or right seems to care about the Anti-Trust Act anymore. It doesn’t help that special interest lobbies like the American Medical Association, and special groups, like the insurance co. has specifically been exempted from that act.
Enforcing it is pretty simple; it’s just that no one does.
No ‘help’ from the cunts in Washington,
by and large, there are laughing at what
is happening. Unfortunately these goats,
sheep, are actual people, people that
never learned to count past ‘2′.. 1, 2,
3 Third Party Candidate, this could have
been avoided decades ago.
So ‘goats’, ’sheep’ what have you, because
the masses can’t count to ‘3′ [three], here
we are. Way to go ‘Amerika’, you wrote
the script to a tee.
Well said. A complete goat-fuck by design. Then when everyone is penniless, they’ll institute government everything to solve the problem. Problem=>Reaction=>Solution. Hear the sheeple bleat for help…. Heeeeeeelp meeeeeee!
Saw this coming a mile away.
On a side note, it didn’t help that these buildings displaced thousands of poor and low income people.
That’s right Ladies & Gentleman,
The ‘Real’ real estate crash is on the
way. This will dwarf the fraudulent
‘housing crash’ by many magnitudes.
And, of course, further compound the
depression of housing prices. In other
words, This is Just The Beginning.
There will be ‘No Recovery’! Let’s make
that very clear. The U.S. is being
de-industrialized by the globalist,
inbred scum. Everything is proceeding
as planned.
Bang up job guys!
These are the types of characters who have captured the
American government and gamed the US financial regulatory system for pure personal greed .
Mixman77 please this is not a republican thing or a democrat thing, this is a greedy, the only jobs left in america, are the building, and all the buildings are empty, because people are addicted to credit, look at the derivatives, how does it feel to be a red chinese democrat or red chinese republican? Shit we are being so dumbed down by chemtrails nobody has the energy to think let alone build..
I hate the developers, and eminent domain, and in california we got the builders line up to build green, and SB 375, on the horizon, california has never had a problem with natural development, but now we are overdeveloped and the SCAG and RHNA figures are still coming, fricking insane councils of governments under orders from the UN agenda 21 building clusterfucks
This is exactly right!
So you’re telling me that you buy things you dont want to buy because the TV tells you to? You do that personally?
Hilarious. That pretty much explains your position on capitalism right there. You’ll believe and do anything exterior sources tell you to.
We know the democrats started the KKK and they caused the civil war by not wanting to end slavery. After the civil war the republicans placed 13 blacks into our government stating they had been done wrong and this would insure it wouldn’t happen again. The democrats protested them out and have protested black people in our government until the 60’s when they needed them. Please do not allow them to use you, Americans are too smart for this to happen to our great land. Bring America back in 2010!
And who was it that created these radical lending practices? THE DEMOCRAT – PERIOD! When Clinton was in office he is the one who brought in Rendition and he set up to lend to people who could not afford it. Then the DEMOCRATS purposed the tarp and rushed it through being they have had control of congress since 2006…to blame bush is simply ignorant and untrue and enough is enough…we need to make those responsible pay…THE DEMOCRATS…Tim G was chair on the first tarp bailout. We got set up!
Lets be honest, if people like Neal were honest when they held the keys to the economy we all would not be in the place. These same business men on here crying about their loses are typically the ones who caused the problems to begin with through poor business practices. The only people who are truly suffering are the hard working Americans who are now of work because of these business moves. We need honest people in America and boot the rest! The DEMOCRATS have really screwed us!
Yes and when there is monopoly control over essential goods and services such as food and water than what? What prevents the monopoly and the corporate monster from swallowing up any start up competition? The answer is nothing!
As I have said before, remove the subsidies, the (appearance?) consumer protections, social programs such as welfare and YOU WILL HAVE A REVOLUTION. There are far too many people who have been left behind and oppressed by what you call the welfare state to just change how things work.
Agreed, the bailouts shouldn’t have happened but worse than them happening is that they went to the people that wrecked everything, especially when there are people literally starving AND the government picks up the tab by way of social services anyway. So why not just put these people on the pay roll and get something out of it? Instead, they gave money to people who may lend money to people who may start projects and may hire people, all while the unemployment level rises.
You completely ignore the human component by attempting to make a binary argument. It is not black and white and people buy what they are CONDITIONED to buy, I believe this is called advertising? What you are explaining looks great on paper but has their ever been an example of a totally (pure?) free market? I guess another way to put it is where is your empirical data, or are you relying on theory?
Between now and 2 years from now we’re going to look back at this video as a cassandra. This is 100% true ladies and gentlemen, what happened in the housing market is exactly whats going to happen with commercial real estate. All this is going to happen IN the second dip of a double dip recession, which will in fact be more of an inflationary depression. Of course if the FED leaves interest rates unchanged for the next two years we’ll just see hyperinflation. Damned if u do, damned if u dont.
Thats not true by any means. Businesses wont make money if people dont buy their product. They’re giving people what they want, if people dont want it, they wont invest in what the business is selling and the company will fail. Its simple logic, its amazing you dont understand it. Businesses cant be greedy if there arent people giving them money by their own free will.
Tha bailouts shouldnt have happened at all. The bailouts are going to seriously fuck up the economy you cant just print money without consequences otherwise we would have printed 50 Trillion to ‘realllly’ get our economy back on its feet
I mean wth lol
I’m sorry but you have no factual basis for these claims and seem to exhibit an all too common misunderstanding of how capitalism works. Capitalism discourages against wealth concentration in markets if those markets are functionally free. Excessive bigness creates inefficiencies more often than economies of scale and naturally fails. This would mean bankruptcy in a capitalist system, but in the US Monetarist System it means the Fed bails you out.
We’re all Friedmanites now.
- L. Summers